Nondestructive Evaluation

Describing NDE issues associated with real-world applications, this comprehensive book details conventional and modern NDE technologies. It instructs readers on common techniques, equipment applications, and the potentials and limitations of current NDE methods. Each chapter details a different method, providing an explanation of the fundamental physical laws governing the method, the inspection techniques and typical equipment used in its application, final system integration of transducers, supporting instrumentation, commonly practiced procedures necessary for viable NDE inspection, examples of how the method can be applied, and end-of-chapter problems.